Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire

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Welcome to the Cheshire WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of the UK county, Cheshire. We aim to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Cheshire, by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles on people, places, and things resident or native to, or located in Cheshire. We are also the project which maintains the Cheshire Portal.

Goals
  • To improve all wikipedia articles that are concerned with Cheshire, including its history, geography, people, constructions and buildings, establishments and customs so that as many as possible become Featured Articles.
  • To maintain, improve, and expand the Cheshire Portal.
  • Identify 'holes' or omissions in the coverage of Cheshire, and write new articles to remove them.
  • All relevant articles should be included in the Category:Cheshire or one of its subcategories.
Scope
  • Articles about all subjects related to Cheshire, including articles on people, places, and things resident or native to, or located in Cheshire.
  • The Cheshire Portal - its maintainance, expansion, and updating.

Contents

[edit] Guidelines

We shall try to follow the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for our articles.

[edit] Open tasks

The process of specifying open tasks is currently taking place on the project's talk page. Please feel free to join in.

Urgent Task

We need to begin to assess all articles that fall within our remit. The new assessments sub-page is now accessible here and can provide guidance on how to do this.


To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Cheshire: edit · history · watch · refresh

Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Requests: Articles about the following:
    • Every parish and/or settlement in Cheshire, together with appropriate templates added (see talk page for some resources, and here for the tables that need completing.)
    • Canals in Cheshire (already started)
    • The Salt Industry in Cheshire (already started)
    • Public Footpaths of Cheshire (already started)
    • Roads of Cheshire
    • Rivers of Cheshire (possibly closely linked with the canals article)
    • Railways of Cheshire
    • Archeological Sites of Cheshire
    • The Silk Industry of Cheshire
    • Public Parks and Gardens of Cheshire
    • Religion in Cheshire
    • "Firsts" of Cheshire (inventions, structures, etc)
    The above tasks might consist in writing new articles, even if they are very brief at the moment, and also in searching out already existing articles on wikipedia that would fall into one of these categories. They should be initially placed into appropriate lists so others can see them and help complete them.
  • Expand:

    Work on the following:
    The project's talk page to expand the project page and specify various tasks that need doing;

    The Cheshire Portal to expand and maintain it to a high standard.
  • Other: Urgently begin to assess all articles that fall within the remit of the project.

[edit] Participants

  1.  DDStretch  (talk) 21:46, 30 December 2006 (UTC) - all over, but probably Crewe and Nantwich and Congleton boroughs in greater detail. (Born in Crewe, lived in Haslington until 1961, then became an exile until I was retired, at which point, I became a near-exile in Stoke-on-Trent. Local History of Cheshire is a significant leisure activity now.)
  2. --SunStar Nettalk 02:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  3. Pixie2000 10:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
  4. JFBurton 17:16, 17 January 2007 (UTC) - East Cheshire (Kettleshulme, Rainow)
  5. Richard B 13:29, 31 December 2006 (UTC) - particularly N.E. Cheshire.
  6. Regan123 - probably South Cheshire
  7. Phildav76 16:46, 31 December 2006 (UTC) - I designed the generic county template that is below.
  8. JimHxn - Maybe just Vale Royal but i'll see what i can do JimHxn 18:42, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  9.  Twinney12  (talk) 17:10, 20 November 2007 (UTC) - 'Born & Bred' in Chester City. Participated in celebration of Queen's Coronation with sandwiches and cakes in the Cattle Market in that summer of '53 (Ahhhhhh, the ambience ... the smell - always reminds me of royalty!)
  10. Salinae Middlewich, Salt etc
  11. Peter I. Vardy 12:24, 18 January 2007 (UTC) NW Cheshire, local history, heritage, churches
  12. Bobo12345 11:07, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
  13. Nev1 15:25, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
  14. SportingNonsense 09:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
  15. Cosmopolitancats 13:05, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - various, including history and local government reorganisation issues
  16. RickCraig 15:52, 5 April 2007 (UTC) - North Cheshire; Warrington, Lymm and Villages
  17. Snowy 1973 23:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC) - NW Cheshire (particularly South Wirral)
  18. clogs - can expand entries in/around Chester, and intend to create a page for Caldy Nature Park
  19. Jamesb1 - would like to contribute wherever I can. I Would like to focus on building up the information about Cheshire schools.
  20. Alex Hayes 12:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC) North Cheshire; Warrington, Lymm and Villages
  21. Big Moira 01:12, 24 July 2007 (UTC) - West Cheshire, specifically Ellesmere Port and Chester
  22. Steve Farrell 11:52, 27 July 2007 (UTC) - would like to concentrate mainly on local history, and the Chester/Ellesmere Port area in particular.
  23. (RT) 22:48, 1 August 2007 (UTC) - most things to do with Cheshire; but especially building a comprehensive gazetteer of places and the political geography of the county.
  24. Mothball - Can cover most of Cheshire, will probably concentrate on Ellesmere Port/South Wirral/Chester and Crewe/Nantwich areas.
  25. Espresso Addict 05:00, 10 August 2007 (UTC) -- Nantwich area, particularly interested in listed secular buildings and SSSIs
  26. PJBeef 11:53, 26 August 2007 (UTC) - Chester.
  27. Coolhawks88 18:09 31 August 2007-Prestbury or any other area that are open.
  28. Neil ム 10:06, 17 September 2007 (UTC) - Chester, mainly. I won't be contributing that much but will help out where I can. Also have access to lots of local government information. If anyone needs any admin tasks relating to the project fast-tracking, give me a shout.
  29. Sam Harrison 23:58, 18 September 2007 (UTC) Chester, particuarly Christleton High School, Christleton and Hoole.
  30. --Malleus Fatuorum 22:17, 1 December 2007 (UTC) I'll help wherever I can, but having being born in Cheshire, taken away to Scotland, and then brought back again in my teens, I'll be attracted to those articles that resonate with what I remember about my teenage years in Crewe. :) --Malleus Fatuorum 22:17, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
  31. Bs0u60d3 16:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC). I've lived in Warrington all my life, and will try and contribute to this great county wherever I can.
  32. Joopercoopers (talk) 15:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC) Architecture, photography, beer - based in south cheshire, but get over to chester, northwich etc on regular basis - give me shout if you'd like anything photographing - I've just got a decent camera, so I'm keen to try it out...on everything.
  33. Anthony Baynham Hi I live and Study in Sandbach and have tried to Aid Navigation of Churches articles and will try to help articles in CBC

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[edit] Improving Articles

This entire section gives information about Cheshire-related articles as they progress from simple stubs into becoming Featured Articles with Featured Status. In general, articles should move down into later sub-sections, ending up in the "Featured articles" sub-section at the end. The methods that are used to assess articles are described in the next-but-one main section.

[edit] Articles up to becoming candidates for but not yet attaining Good Article (GA) status

This section deals with the creation of a basic article from simple stub via a short article into one which can be considered, with a little work, to become a candidate for Good Article (GA) status. Articles can be added at any stage in this sub-section. Once an article moves into a later sub-section (1.2 and beyond), it should never return to this one.

[edit] New Stubs

Now done Cranage and Hassall.  DDStretch  (talk) 19:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
Done: Somerford, Somerford Booths, and Moreton cum Alcumlow. This means that Congleton (borough) now has articles covering all of its civil parishes. Many are stubs, and may need cleaning up, etc, but at least there are entries there now. Next stop, Macclesfield (borough)  DDStretch  (talk) 17:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Stoke, Mickle Trafford, Bridge Trafford, Hoole Village, Foulk Stapleford, Harthill, Handley, Dodleston, Shocklach Oviatt, Thornton-le-Moors, Tilston. Peter I. Vardy 11:36, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Cheshire-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

[edit] Already existing Articles that have been substantially reworked or expanded

Please feel free to list Cheshire-related articles here that you have substantially reworked or expanded. This could also include cases where you have added substantial citations and references to an article. (Newer articles at the top, please). Any such articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

[edit] Achieving Good article (GA) status

Articles in this sub-section are either close to being nominated for Good Article (GA) status (GA), have been nominated, or have achieved Good Article status. Wikipedia:Good articles gives more information about this status for articles. (Good Article status can be viewed as a sub-goal to achieving Featured Article Status). The criteria an article has to meet or exceed for it to be given Good Article status can be read about here. The process by which an article is nominated for Good Article status can be found here.

[edit] Articles almost ready to nominate for Good Article (GA) status

These articles should be judged to require only a relatively small amount of work before they can be nominated for Good Article status.


[edit] Articles that have been nominated for Good Article (GA) status and which await a decision

Once a decision has been reached, if successful, list the article in the next sub-sub-section; if not successful, then move it back into the first sub-sub-section of this sub-section.

[edit] Good article Articles that have succeeded in gaining Good Article (GA) status

Articles can be listed here for a short while, and, if they are then to be worked on to get them up to Featured Article Standard, they should be moved into the next subsection or stage.

  1. Runcorn on 22nd April, 2007. Well done!
  2. A500 road on 13 May 2007
  3. Halton Castle on 23 May 2007
  4. Widnes on 28 May 2007
  5. Lovell Telescope on 7 June 2007
  6. Jodrell Bank Observatory on 8 August 2007
  7. Sir John Brunner, 1st Baronet on 7 October 2007
  8. Churche's Mansion on 8 October 2007
  9. St Mary's Church, Acton on 4 January 2008
  10. Thomas Brassey on 10 January 2008
  11. Middlewich on 20 March 2008
  12. Beeston Castle on 1 April 2008 (!)
  13. Chester Cathedral on 7 April 2008
  14. Deva Victrix on 17 April 2008

[edit] FAC Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

None at this time

[edit] FA Featured articles

Articles on Cheshire-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. This judged to be the highest level of quality that an article can achieve. Once an article has arrived here, care must be taken to make sure subsequent edits maintain this level of quality.

  1. Joseph Priestley on 18 November 2007
  2. M62 motorway on 28 November 2007

[edit] Did you know (DYK?)

People are encouraged to nominate articles that fall within the scope of this project for appearance on the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Eligible articles may only be up to 5 days old, of at least 1500 characters, or significantly expanded beyond 1500 characters in the last 5 days. They should also satisfy the requirements found here. You should follow the instructions, and then add the nomination in the correct format, and in the correct place.

[edit] Proposed

The following articles have been proposed for the DYK? section of the main page. Please check on the progress of these nominated articles, and either move them to the Successful subsection, or remove them from here if they were unsuccessful.

[edit] Successful

The following articles have been successfully featured in the DYK? section of the main page:

[edit] Requests for Help

[edit] Categories

[edit] Article Categories

These are categories that are used to classify the articles for the benefit of end-users of Wikipedia.

[edit] Administrative Categories

These are categories that are helpful to the running and administration of the Cheshire WikiProject. They will (and should) appear on the talk pages of articles.

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